Use of cookies by Bango

Cookies are small text files that are placed on the browser or hard drive of your computer, smartphone, Smart TV or other smart device by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.

Cookies are either:

Session cookies: are only stored on your computer during your web session and are automatically deleted when you close your browser

or

Persistent cookies: are stored as a file on your computer and it remains there when you close your web browser. The cookie can be read by the website that created it when you visit that website again.

Cookies in use can also be categorized as follows:

Strictly necessary: These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. Without these cookies, the services available to you on our website cannot be provided. These cookies do not gather information about you that could be used for marketing or remembering where you have been on the internet.

Performance/ Analytics: These cookies help us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. They are persistent cookies.

Functionality: These are used to recognize you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalize our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language etc.).

Targeting / Advertisement: These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website more relevant for you. We may also share this information with third-party companies to show ads more relevant to your interest on other websites.

Third-party cookies

We use third-party cookies to help us further optimize the user experience and analyze performance. As an example, we use the LinkedIn Insight Tags that enable the collection of data regarding members’ visits to our website to better target advertising. For a comprehensive list of cookies used across our websites, please refer to ‘Cookies used on Bango websites’ section below.

Manage preferences

You can change your cookie preferences at any time by clicking on the cookie icon. You can adjust the available sliders to ‘on’ or ‘off’ and save your preferences. You may need to refresh your page for your settings to take effect.

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Find out more

You’ll find more information about cookies at https://www.aboutcookies.org or http://www.allaboutcookies.org.

Cookies used on Bango websites

Click the links below to see a comprehensive list of cookies used across each Bango website: